economy are slowing down the global economy. she also talked about the fiscal cliff and the political climate in the united states as well as the role of central banks. this is about 1.5 hours. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> let me will commute to the peterson institute of international economics. christine hildegarlagarde, fromr prior position as minister of finance in france and continuing at the home of the imf. chief famously attended some of her high school in earlier days here in bethesda. she is a lawyer by training. she spent much of her career at baker and mckenzie, becoming chairman of they are global executive committee and then chairman of their global strategic committee in 2004. she then joined the french government in 2005, originally was minister for foreign trade and then minister for agriculture and fisheries for a brief time. then, in june 2007, she became the first woman to hold post of the minister of finance and economy of